Portland

Triggering a collective of citizen sleuths known as Cooperites to circle the wagons, a cold-case team says their code-breaker has definitively identified the man who hijacked a commercial plane in 1971 and parachuted off with a $200,00 ransom, never to be seen again.

An Oregon appeals court ruled Thursday that the city of Portland’s use of zoning code to limit the expansion and size of fuel terminals did not violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as the state’s land-use board found.

A homeless man who represented himself in a lawsuit claiming a city camping ban criminalized homelessness could get a second chance at his case after garnering sympathy from a panel of Ninth Circuit judges.

The Port of Portland violated the First Amendment when it barred an environmental group’s ad at the Portland airport: “Welcome to Oregon – Home of the Clearcut,” the Oregon Court of Appeals ruled this week.

Former Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton demoted his assistant for commissioning an audit that showed sheriff’s officers were more violent toward black inmates in city jails, the officer claims in a $1 million lawsuit.

The man accused of racially motivated killings on an Oregon commuter train didn’t enter a plea at his first court appearance. Instead, he yelled while bailiffs stood passively by his side. “Death to the enemies of America!” he shouted, as spectators’ enraged chants of “Murderer!” reverberated through the cavernous marble courthouse.